How to Write a LEQ for APUSH, AP World, & AP Euro

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In this video Heimler walks you through everything you need to know to write a Long Essay Question (LEQ) for APUSH, AP World, and AP Euro. Since they're all scored on the same rubric, these methods work for all the AP History essays.

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i wish it was more intuitive lol. It would be so much easier if they honestly just "held our hands" by simply having questions about what they want for each step so we can answer it directly, but where each question basically builds up on each other one to just basically be an LEQ. I usually always do wonderful on the MCQ but it always has to be the LEQ or DBQ to mess me up in my classes. Im just going to use this format I made, and I will put it here in case anyone else finds it helpful. 1) Introduction A)What is the historical context of the time period in question (1920s-1940s)? B)What were some of the major developments, events, or trends that characterized this time period? C) What is the specific prompt that you will be addressing in your essay (e.g. "To what extent did the Great Depression and the New Deal transform American society and politics in the 1930s?")? 2) Thesis and roadmap A) What is your thesis statement, which should directly respond to the prompt and preview your main arguments? B) What are the main arguments that you will be making to support your thesis? 3) Body paragraphs A) What is your topic sentence for the first body paragraph, which should introduce one of your main B) arguments and provide evidence to support it? C) What specific historical evidence (e.g. events, documents, statistics) can you use to support your argument? D) How does this evidence illustrate continuity or change over time within the time period? E) What is your analysis or explanation of how this evidence supports your argument and contributes to your overall thesis? F) How does this argument relate to the next argument you will be making in the next body paragraph? Conclusion A) What is your restated thesis, which summarizes your main arguments and addresses the prompt one final time? B) What is the significance of your analysis and argument for understanding the historical context and period in question? C) What are some broader implications or potential future developments that could result from the continuity or change you have identified?

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@@strawberryshortcake8746 I believe I got a 5/6 on it! I was so surprised, I got a 1/6 on my first LEQ so it was a HUGE improvement

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I have no idea how to study for it, I got a 3/6 on my last one and my teacher doesn’t really go over LEQ’S

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I just got a flashback to last year's APUSH LEQ with those prompts LOL. I'm in AP World now and I got a 3 on the APUSH exam last year but man I was so done by then that I just wrote some garbage about gold God and glory for that first prompt and somehow walked away with college credit.

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I didnt beleive him when he said to makr the time period, but today i actually caught myself almost writing about a century later than the prompt. Thanks Heimler, you saved me!

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the ap test is tomorrow and i still haven’t written an leq the whole year😭

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What did you get

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@@dreamer331 i got a 5 surprisingly and my whole leq was 1 intro paragraph and like 3 sentences more??? good luck on yours !!

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My teacher assigned an LEQ a while back and it's due tmrw for me. This video helped extremely, thanks a lot!

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leq on my midterm tomorrow and my teacher never explained how to write one lmao. this is great!

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I'm scared because I can tell that my teacher is a really easy grader on essays. He always gives me a really good grade with no constructive criticism and I'm worried that if I don't get any criticism I won't actually do well on the AP exam because I don't know what I need to change and practice.

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So everyone’s here cram studying the day before your Leq, right?

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I have my ap euro exam tomorrow and my teacher never talked about an leq really(mostly dbq and mcq) so this video helps. Im so stressed as I’m not good under time and writing 😭

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Night before the exam and my teacher still hasn't taught us how to write an LEQ 🤕

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just to clarify; a question in terms of evidence. so each paragraph needs 2 pieceS of evidence correct? and having 1 piece of evidence per body paragraph is not sufficient, despite having 3 paragraphs (3 pieces of specific evidence for each one)?

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if u have at least two piece of evidence that i well analyzed, u should get the two points. but more than two i recommended. i normally do two body paragraphs with two evidences each, and then a counterclaim paragraph with a piece of evidence at the end if there is time, just for an attempt at the complexity point

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Do you have any advice to feel better in the days before the exam? Like I have a horrible looming feeling that I'm going to fail and I'm going to be really upset with myself if I do, but none of this course sticks with me. All I'm good at is world war 2 and that's not a large portion of the test. I'm going to every after school review, asking why the right answers are what they are, applying the new ways of thinking I'm learning, but I'm not doing much better than before and I'm panicking.

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I’m your counter argument that you situated in your thesis, you have acknowledged another pov of the evidence you are using (another interpretation) but you are not convinced it is the best way to interpret they evidence. Must be seen through our essay not in one spot gotta provide specific historical evidence

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does the counterargument need its own paragraph?

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1:13 the college board tells us a head of time? does that mean the time period changes every year?

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Does anyone know where to find exam descriptions?

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Me writing about the dang Incas for the leq last year, cause the other topics were not fresh on my mind 😭😭 I got a 4 on my world ap even though I wrote a bunch of bs on my leq

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4:54 5:03

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4:28

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